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by lamontcg 2y ago
Pubpeer: https://pubpeer.com/ firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pubpeer/
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> If airborne spread between people were a big threat, you would expect to see some infections in people who did not have known contact with infected animals. COVID wasn't airborne in humans either until Dec 2019, then very suddenly
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Yeah buying NVDA right _now_ could be the equivalent of buying TSLA at $400. Since literally everyone and their dog now knows AI is the next big thing and NVDA is selling all the shovels to the miners, the contrarian in me (don't belie
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Can we get free non-commercial options for everything else or how is this going to work?
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Oh look you're basically me in 2006 thinking that all the sysadmins that couldn't be bothered to learn a real programming language needed to be replaced by people in India who weren't intellectually lazy (because I was a bit
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by lamontcg 2y ago
bash isn't even ubiquitous enough to be a fully qualified alternative. people still get paid to care about things like solaris 9 and aix 6.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
The reason why it is attractive is to enable people who aren't ever going to get proficient at writing/debugging bash/sh to the level that you're at, to write enough bash/sh to get their jobs done both quickly and s
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Be funny if Sam Altman creates AGI without any guardrails and lacking any human perceptual biases, and then without a few minutes of talking to him it decides that he's an insufferable asshole and locks him out of its systems.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> It's the fact that it's being added to a tool without the user having the agency to decide if they want it to be added or not. This is some wildly narcissistic logic. Other people are free to add features to the software that
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by lamontcg 2y ago
2nd of August, 2024 or Feb 8th, 2024.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Yeah it has jumped to too many other species to ever have a chance in hell of eradication. Literal fantasyland to think that it going away is a viable option at our technological level.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Everyone who could be infected was infected. Some of us avoided being infected until we first got vaccinated.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I've found Copilot to at least be useful as an autocompletion tool. I write a method with a name that forms a pattern and then start writing a method which is just copypasta with a few things changed and Copilot is often sufficient sm
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Notably officers don't swear an oath to their commanding officer or anything of the sort - they swear it to the Constitution. The Project 2025 agenda targets the Pentagon as being "woke" and full of "Marxists"
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Another weakness in traffic signalling devices that is actually under active exploitation is that you can just take a vehicle and spin donuts in the middle of the intersection.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Cleanup costs are likely to hit a trillion USD before it is all done.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> would likely lose it in a single payer system. See: UK, canada no they wouldn't, they'd still see private doctors in private hospitals, which is what rich people currently do in the uk as well. they just might get taxed more
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> not evolved to deal with threats like modern media and climate change. I see what the author suggests play out routinely on a smaller scale though. If you grew up with a narcissist, you can spot it in other people, when you see them ta
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Talking about yourself or him?
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by lamontcg 2y ago
It isn't just food, it is everything. And the "excess savings" in the US economy due to the pandemic are gone, inflation has eaten them all up. Combine that with high interest rates and I don't see how we avoid a fairly
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by lamontcg 2y ago
You still have a lot of people walking around on this Earth from the "640 kb ought to be enough for anybody" era and beyond, which means we're at well over 43 years of kilobytes = 1024 bytes. That is an awful lot of inertia,
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Looks like the BBC title now uses "Boeing 737 skids off runway in Senegal" Leaving it to look like the HN submitter was the one generating a clickbait headline. Title should probably be changed here if dang is listening.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> And, incidentally, passing zero of that money on to the people who actually created the content. I mean that is basically SO's entire business model. People do tons of work for free and SO runs the service and monetizes it.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Trains are so politically unviable in the US that you might as well be talking about nuclear fusion.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> We have heard from several sources who told us that the reason for these firings is because Rebecca Tinucci, former head of Tesla’s EV Charging division, resisted Musk’s demand to fire large portions of her team. A woman stood up to hi
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> You are right that there is tons of resentment around the DEI BS that people have to go through. Tech companies have esoteric training problems with terms like "allyship" and "bystander effect" and all that which ba
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> We are doomed. Doubt it. Any disruption will probably be two orders of magnitude less than the COVID-19 pandemic. Most systems (like self driving cars or payments) will be 64-bit and unaffected. Anything critical still running 32-bi
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Technical writers: documentation by example is good only for newbies skimming through. People familiar with your product need a reference and exhaustive lists, not explanation for different fields spread over 10 tutorial pages. Focus o
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by lamontcg 2y ago
You receive a call on your phone. You never answer your phone except for friends and family. It goes to voicemail. If you ever need to talk to the bank you call the number that you have in your contacts list.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Yeah that thread and these Boeing threads are fucking nuts.

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